Win 7 Damn! Oni Crashed.

I've been trying to get Oni to work on Win 7 for a few days now. I've gone through many fixes, including C-Daodan (binkw32.dll) and BinkPlay with a new compatible "Oni.exe", Oni AE, with and without vtuneapi.dll, and running the game in various compatibility modes as admin and with or without visual themes enabled. I've exhausted my resources. Startup.txt posted below. Thank you.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: Win 7 Damn! Oni Crashed.

I think you've to look around on some of the older threads. These errors are pretty similar so I'm sure you can find a solution to it somewhere around. I can't really help you, because I never had that many problems after the Anniversary Edition was released.

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Re: Win 7 Damn! Oni Crashed.

mm i thought he said he did.

@ OniNightmare I'm on windows 7 if u are still trying to run the original Oni by replacing the Oni.exe and all that u did replace bink32 and all that but then u run Oni from the original folder .. it won't work. install the AE fully and run the oni that's in the edition folder.

there' no way around it to make the original oni work excepet using the AE, the full AE, not just the oni.exe or bink32 from it.

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I did install Oni AE and attempted to run it from the "Edition" folder. I've gone through so many permutations of .exe and .dll that it may just be irreparably mixed up. I'm going to wipe the system clean of everything Oni related and start fresh. Am I correct in believing that I require the original Oni files to run AE, or can I just install AE and run that?

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You need the original game installed in order to apply the AE. It's only a mod after all, and anything else would be against the copyrights.

Make sure you install everything properly. And remember to add at least one mod the first time you globalize in the AE installer. Otherwise you won't be able to play the game. (I accidentally did this once, and it took me hours to discover)

Re: Win 7 Damn! Oni Crashed.

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So I wiped everything clean, re-installed original Oni, installed OniAE, got the patches, and ran the globalizer with one mod. Both Vanilla Oni and Oni AE give me similar startup.txt files both ending in "Initializing draw engines...". Then Blam! Oni Crashed. Also, I can't seem to figure out that nifty HTML for the codebox, so if someone wants to tell me how to do that so I can condense these things.

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I installed patches over the original Oni, not AE. I figured if the original didn't work, then AE never would because it is my understanding that one requires the other. My video drivers are up to date.

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Re: Win 7 Damn! Oni Crashed.

Started from scratch. Didn't mess with any of the Original ONI files. Downloaded Edition PC-Full. Ran AE Installer. Installed new weapons and new characters mods. Still crashes. Startup.txt ends at initializing draw engines. I'm not sure what else to do at this point. I'm installing off of an Oni CD I copied so I could maintain the integrity of the original disc (which I lost) by not carrying it around and installing it (I had strange ideas about things when I was 14). Maybe that's an issue.

I haven't said it yet, but I really appreciate everyone who's been helping me as well as all the people behind AE and the mods. Oni was great enough to keep replaying, but a little variety keeps it fresh.